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I'm not getting a Flu shot this year.
I'm using this Flu season as a self-experiment to see if there's a difference. I've been getting Flu shots for the last 6 years, and my sick-rate during that time was no more than 2 days out of the year in one occurrence.
This year, since I'm not being forced into getting a shot, I won't, out of pure scientific curiosity to see if I get sick more, or not at all.
So far I'm doing great.
A lot of kids at school came down with all kinds of crap, and I'm not trying to do anything different than I'd normally do, and I haven't even gotten so much as a headache this year, outside of hangovers.
(There was that spontaneous allergic reaction recently, but that has nothing to do with it.)
I want to see if my immune system does better or worse without the shot.
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If your immune system works better, it is not because you did not get the shot, it is because you just got lucky this year. The way vaccines work is by making your immune system immune to things. The flu shot, will make you immune to the strain of the flu that the shot pertains too. There is no way it would do otherwise unless you were one of the very rare cases where the dead or extremely weakened flu virus injected into your blood so your immune system can taste and become immune to it, suddenly gains super powers and infects you.
That said, I wont be taking the flu shot because I am lazy.